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2019
2022
Professor
DR. PENGYU REN
E.C.H Professor for Professional Practice
BME 5.202M phone: (512)232-1832
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Research Associate
DR. CHENGWEN LIU
PhD Chemistry, Peking University 2016
BME 3.516
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Postdoc Fellows
Graduate Students
KETSIA ZINGA
3rd year PhD Candidate, BME
BS Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2021
Modeling the mechanisms through which intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) reorder lipid bilayers using the MARTINI coarse-grain force field
ELIZABETH WAIT
4th year PhD candidate, Biochemistry
BS Biotechnology, University of Central Florida, 2019
LANL Summer Student, 2019
Modeling protein interactions with rare earth metals to inform design of efficient and environmentally friendly REM-extraction methods inspired by biological extremophiles
XUDONG YANG
4th year PhD Candidate, BME
BS Chemistry, SJTU
AMOEBA and AMOEBA+ development and parameterization and developing a Tinker-based Milestoning program which can perform the enhanced sampling method Milestoning on AMOEBA trajectories
COLE ALLEN
2nd year PhD Candidate, BME
MS Chemistry, 2022
BS Chemistry 2019, Louisiana Tech
Investigating the conduction mechanism and selectivity of ions through potassium ion channels using quantum mechanics simulations
YANXING WANG
3rd year PhD Candidate, BME
MS Medicinal Chemistry, Peking University, 2020
BS Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, 2018
Incorporation of neutral network into AMOEBA for higher accuracy
Undergraduate Students
SHIREEN PATHAK
Sophomore, Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Ketsia Zinga
JERRY CABRIALES
Sophomore, Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Elizabeth Wait
Lab Alumni
BRANDON WALKER
PhD in 2022
BS Physics & Math, Purdue 2017
JUSTIN GOURARY
MS Biomedical Engineering, 2022
BS Chem Engr, Princeton University, 2019
ZHIFENG FRANCIS JING
PhD in 2021
BS in Chemistry, Tianjing University
MS in Chemistry, SJTU
Intern, IBM Watson 2018
DR. RUI QI
PhD in 2020
BS Med Chem, Tianjin Univ 2014
Intern DE Shaw 2017
Corning Inc, 2019
DR. JACOB LITMAN
PhD Biochemistry, University of Iowa
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DR. SARA CHENG
BS Physics, UC Berkeley, 2013
PhD Physics, UT Austin, 2018
Postdoc, UC Berkeley, 2018-2020
Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2020-
JAYVEE ABELLA
BS BME, UT Austin 2014
DR. CHENFENG HE
BS Biotech, Nanjing University 2013
PhD BME, UT Austin 2018
Dr. MATTHEW HARGER
DR. DAVID BELL
PhD BME, UT Austin 2017
GAURAV CHATTREE
BS BME, UT Austin, 2013
DANNY DYKSTRA
MS, Biochem, UT Austin 2015
DR. JOHN FONNER
PhD BME, UT Austin 2011
DR. PAVEL GOLUBKOV
PhD, Biochem, UT Austin 2005
Principle Scientist, Schrodinger Inc
DR. DIAN “OSCAR” JIAO
PhD, BME, UT Austin, 2009
Data Scientist at Stanley;
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MICHAEL KING
BS, BME, UT Austin 2006
DR. CHRIS KING
BS, BME, UT Austin, 2006
PhD, Univ Washington
DR. XIAOJIA MU
PhD, BME, 2014
DR. MICHAEL J. SCHNIEDERS
PhD Wash Univ St. Louis
Professor, Univ of Iowa
DR. YUE SHI
PhD, BME, 2013
Software Engineer, Google
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DR. KELLY STANTON
BS, BME, 2008
PhD, Yale Univ
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DR. JOHNNY WU
PhD, BME, 2012
Principle Scientist, Roche
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DR. ZHEN XIA
PhD, BME, 2013
IBM, Yahoo!
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DR. CHUNLI YAN
PhD, Chem, Dalian Univ of Sci & Tech, 2009
DR. JIAJING JENNY ZHANG
PhD, BME, 2012
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DR. CHANGSHENG (Victor) ZHANG
PhD Chemistry, Peking University
Dr. Qiantao Wang
PhD Pharmaceutical Science, Manchester University